Because the Confederates won the Battle of Wilson Creek. ... He considered that the Confederate Army had chances to win the Civil War because the Southern Army had defeated the Union Army in the Battle of Wilson Creek.
Causes for the American Revolution were: Stamp Acts, Boston Tea Party/Intolerable Acts, French and Indian War, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Thomas Paine and First and the Second Continental Congress. The effects of the American Revolution were: Treaty of Paris, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and so on. The causes for the French Revolution were: problems with money like low amounts that occurred in war, people were growing hungry, aggressive taxes only for the lower class and so on. <span />
Well, it is like the Biblical story about the Tower of Babylon - in the beginning, there was only one language and all the people in the world spoke it. However, because of many disputes and quarrels, they all separated and created numerous new languages. The same thing happened in the real world (if you don't believe in what the Bible says) - there used to be Proto-Indo-European language, but over time, it developed many new languages as people grew apart and created new nations.
World War 1 or First World War was known as the Great War or "The war to end all wars", before the beginning of the Second World War.
The principal countries involved in this war were Russia, France, Britain, Italy and the United States of America in one side, and Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey on the other side, forming two opposed alliances: The Allies and the Central Powers.
This war began because of a Serbian nationalist, who killed Archduke Ferdinand, heir of the Austrian throne. Because of this act of terrorism, a great war started, and that come to be known as the major European conflict in a hundred thousand years.
